Good evening. Hope I can receive some help with an issue I'm having with a WhiteMacbook 13 inches 2.4 ghz early 2008 (it is not mine, it is of a friend).
He told that it suddenly stopped working and he wanted to reinstall everything. He didn't have the original disk and left me with the laptop. At first I did the regular check, it is okay saving some two or three scratches. When I turned on the thing with a generic OS X disc (pressing C as always) after a little while it jumped to a black screen with a white text saying "Can't find a boot device, please insert one and press any key", it struck me because somehow the thing resembled a DOS text, white text over black screen and even the font. Well, I then used a 30 gb iPod with a mounted OS X. Nada, zero. Then I resorted to my sister's white macbook, I started the sucker via Target Mode with a firewire cable and the Disk of my sister's white macbook recognized the other one instantly. I repartitioned and I did (just for precaution) a total reformat. Then using my iPod with OS X mounted, I connected it to my sister's mac and started from the iPod. This time the OS X of the iPod started, slowly, but it started, I jumped to the installer and selected the Targeted Mac and started to install, and I waited, waited and waited. I called the guy and he told me that he NEVER used OS X in his Mac, just installed Windows XP (???!!!). I rechecked and I started it with some Windows CD I have in my hands IT INSTANTLY RECOGNIZED the Windows CD and started to unload and resorted to installation (it suddenly halted at 87% install and nada, zero too). My suspicion is that, somehow, someone with some tricky hand manipulated the Mac's logic board firmware and converted the White MacBook to a Windows laptop (or a stupid mess).
Can someone help me on how to restore the sucker so I can reinstall OS X? The guy wants to sell it and he wants the Mac as is with OS X, no windows. I have my sister's Macbook, my 30 GB USB iPod, a firewire cable and an OS X image in a usb stick.
Sorry for the long explanation, but I don't want to miss a little thing in the hope someone can assist me via this thread, skype chat or Yahoo! Messenger.
THANKS!!
He told that it suddenly stopped working and he wanted to reinstall everything. He didn't have the original disk and left me with the laptop. At first I did the regular check, it is okay saving some two or three scratches. When I turned on the thing with a generic OS X disc (pressing C as always) after a little while it jumped to a black screen with a white text saying "Can't find a boot device, please insert one and press any key", it struck me because somehow the thing resembled a DOS text, white text over black screen and even the font. Well, I then used a 30 gb iPod with a mounted OS X. Nada, zero. Then I resorted to my sister's white macbook, I started the sucker via Target Mode with a firewire cable and the Disk of my sister's white macbook recognized the other one instantly. I repartitioned and I did (just for precaution) a total reformat. Then using my iPod with OS X mounted, I connected it to my sister's mac and started from the iPod. This time the OS X of the iPod started, slowly, but it started, I jumped to the installer and selected the Targeted Mac and started to install, and I waited, waited and waited. I called the guy and he told me that he NEVER used OS X in his Mac, just installed Windows XP (???!!!). I rechecked and I started it with some Windows CD I have in my hands IT INSTANTLY RECOGNIZED the Windows CD and started to unload and resorted to installation (it suddenly halted at 87% install and nada, zero too). My suspicion is that, somehow, someone with some tricky hand manipulated the Mac's logic board firmware and converted the White MacBook to a Windows laptop (or a stupid mess).
Can someone help me on how to restore the sucker so I can reinstall OS X? The guy wants to sell it and he wants the Mac as is with OS X, no windows. I have my sister's Macbook, my 30 GB USB iPod, a firewire cable and an OS X image in a usb stick.
Sorry for the long explanation, but I don't want to miss a little thing in the hope someone can assist me via this thread, skype chat or Yahoo! Messenger.
THANKS!!